NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 +8%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

1120

40

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

151W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Barts

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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